Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. Virtual worlds in 2007, for example. Take, for example, the founding editor of the technology trade magazine Wired , Kevin Kelly.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2017

” The photo was taken as part of a 2007 profile in Fortune magazine. AltSchool founder Max Ventilla was a Google exec. Who worked at Google. And then I’m happy to answer any questions you might have about the current state of ed-tech – products or propaganda. This is the “PayPal Mafia.”

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